STCP Council of Chiefs
Peter D. Ziegler
Peter holds a BA in economics from Ripon College and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University with highest honors. He is former Chairman, President and CEO of the Ziegler Companies, Inc. and former Chairman of the North Track Funds. Previously he was manager of investments in oil & gas, leveraged buyouts and private placements at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Peter is currently Chairman of the Board of West Bend Mutual Insurance Co and the longest standing Director of Trustmark Insurance in Lake Forest Illinois. He has been active both locally and Nationally with the YMCA. He served as Chair of the National YMCA Retirement Fund from 2003 to 2006 and as Vice Chair of the National YMCA Endowment Fund. He was inducted into the National YMCA Hall of Fame in 2013, the first non-YMCA employee to be inducted since John D. Rockefeller. He is currently Chair of the Blood Center of Wisconsin and Chair of Centers for Transfusion and Transplant Medicine. He has served as a Commissioner of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission - Governor appointed. Peter serves on numerous other civic, charitable and corporate Boards.
He is an avid outdoor enthusiast, hunter and conservationist and has been involved with a number of land trusts. He is politically very active in trying to protect Wisconsin streams and lakes. He joined the STCP Board in 1989 and served as President in 2010 and was reelected President in 2013.
